[review] Gough Electronics Filtron Pro Wah (by LordRiffenstein)

Gough Electronics

Finding info about the company behind this pedal wasn't easy. They
are located in England and the Filtron Pro Wah is their only music
related item. They are only selling it on eBay so check there from time to time if you
interested in buying one.

Filtron Pro Wah

The people from Gough Electronics can explain much better than me
what is going on with the pedal so below is their description of the
pedal:

“It is a bandpass type filter with variable resonance (Peak) and has
Envelope control mode, Amplitude triggered mode and Auto Wah mode. The
modulation for the auto wah can be triangle wave, square wave, upward
ramp, downward ramp and random steps. There is also a manual setting to
allow the filter to be tuned by hand. Triangle wave modulation can be
added to the envelope mode if required, or turned off by rotating the
'Rate' control fully counter clock wise.”

Clearly, there is a lot going on in a small package.

The pedal in use

I always thought filter pedals were not really for me as I associated
them with wacky sounds. Of course, I have used auto-wahs before and
they are basically a filter pedal but there are some very wacky options out
there.

The Filtron Pro has a pretty basic build but I’m pretty sure a lot
more thinking went into the sound than the look. And I like a good
looking pedal as much as the next guy but sound is the most important
part, right?

The Mode control is the most important one obviously. It’s weird
because it’s just a simple pot that you can turn and although the
different types of filter are clearly marked, you CAN land in between 2
types and end up with some interesting sounds. When testing, I did not
look for specific sounds but simply explored them all and, much to my
surprise, found a whole lot of great sounding and very inspiring tones.
The Peak and range controls are very easy to dial in and get just right.
I often find auto-wahs to only sound good with single coils or
humbuckers but the Filtron Pro allows you to quickly dial in the right
setting. By simply fiddling the controls and using my ears, I was able
to get a bunch of very recognizable tones from it, I loved going very
funky with it!

So I asked Bart (aka "DiscoFreq") from EffectsDatabase how he got this pedal and he
bought it on Ebay. It wasn’t expensive at all. So clearly, this is a
pedal that will fly under the radar because it’s cheap, unknown and the
build is very basic. But you would be wrong in dismissing it.

Sitting here writing this review, I’m wondering if it would be worth
getting one. I don’t expect I’d be using it a lot but the cheer amount
of great tones you can get from it and the excellent price point makes
it an ideal pedal to have on the shelf for that moment when the
inspiration hits you.